Monroe County News

Monroe County Sheriff's deputies, as well as officers from Sparta and Tomah plan to be out in force on June 27. The agencies are participating in a Speed Wave effort that's focusing on seatbelt and speeding violations according to Sgt.

The roughly $28 million courthouse and jail facility was approved back in November, but now the board has to approve the design.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Department says 32 year old Grace Wilcox was eastbound on Co.

A Monroe County inmate was found dead Saturday night. Jail officers say they found Gilbert Rebeles, 23, hanging from a bed sheet in his cell around 6:15. Officers say the immediately cut him loose and began CPR.

His name is the Greek word for "the zealous one," but Zelotes S. Rice II - labor negotiator, former state transportation secretary and the state's first secretary of industry, labor and human relations - never saw himself as a zealot.